Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California
Powell Hall of Engineering 410, 3737 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781
Phone: (213) 740-6447 Email: tambe@usc.edu

Education

Recent Awards

• Elected Fellow of AAAI 2007 "For significant contributions to theory and software infrastructure for multi-agent systems and pioneering applications in teamwork systems"
• ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award 2005 (details)
• Okawa faculty research award, 2003 for research on “agents and multiagent systems”
• Scientific Challenge Award, RoboCup'99 International Robotic Soccer competitions, held in conjuction with IJCAI'99, for outstanding research at a RoboCup competition.
• Best papers
  • Best Paper CTS'08: Our paper from the International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'2008), Multiagent adjustable autonomy framework (MAAF) for multirobot multihuman teams performing specialized tactical maneuvers was selected the "Best Paper".
  • Best Paper DCR'07: Our paper from the International workshop on Distributed constraint reasoning (DCR 2007), “Lower bounds on the quality of k-optimal DCOP solutions with respect to the global optimum” was selected the "Best Paper".
  • Best Paper SASEMAS'05: Our paper from the International workshop on safety and security in multiagent systems " Safety in multiagent systems via policy randomization" was selected the "Best paper."
  • AAMAS'02: Our paper from the First International Joint conf on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents'02 "Multiagent teamwork: Analyzing the complexity and optimality of key theories and models" was selected the best paper
  • Agents'99: Our paper from the International conf on Autonomous Agents'99 "Experiences acquired in the design of RoboCup teams" was selected for publication in the "Best of Agents'99" special journal issue of JAAMAS.
  • ICMAS'98: Our paper from the International conf on Multi-agent Systems'98 "Towards flexible teamwork in persistent teams" was selected for publication in the "Best of ICMAS'98" special journal issue of JAAMAS.
• Best paper candidates
  • Finalist for Best Paper (industry track), AAMAS 2008: Our paper from the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (industry track) 2008, finalist for Best Paper Award.
  • Finalist for Best Paper, CEEMAS’2005: Our paper from the Central and Eastern European Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems 2005 (CEEMAS’2005) finalist for Best Paper Award.
  • Finalist for Best student paper AAMAS'03: Our paper from the Second International Joint conf on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents'03 " An asynchronous complete method for distributed constraint optimization " was nominated for the best student paper.

Professional Activities

• Board of directors and trustee
  • Board of directors, International foundation for multi-agent systems (IFMAS)
  • Past Trustee, RoboCup foundation
  • Steering committee of Agents, Theories, Architectures and Languages workshop (ATAL)
  • Advisory committee, Americas Agents School
• Editorial board
  • Associate editor, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
  • Journal of Autonomous agents and Multi-agent Systems (JAAMAS)
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
• Chair
  • Co-chair, International Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2004
  • Chair/Co-chair, Organizing committee, Americas Agents Schools
  • Chair, IFMAS committee on agents schools in underrepresented countries
  • Past program co-chair, ICMAS-2000
  • Program co-chair, ATAL-2001
  • Past Finance and local arrangements chair, Agents'97 and Agents'98

Courses Taught

• CS 499: Intelligent agents and Science Fiction
• CS 543: Software multiagent systems
• FSEM 100: Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction
• CS573: Advanced AI
• CS598 Knowledge-based systems

Recent News

• Newsweek: A Random Weapon in the War on Terror
• Los Angeles Times reports on our work on randomization for security at the Los Angeles International Airport
• International Herald Tribue reports on our work on randomization for the Los Angeles International Airport
• USC News report on the randomization effort for Los Angeles airport
• IEEE Intelligent Systems reports on DEFACTO for disaster response

Post-doctoral position available

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